Greta: The Poster Child for Progressive Contradictions

Mr Van Maren points out the utter idiocy of the left in supporting both the jihad and perversion. If the Muslims win, the gays are dead!

From The European Conservative

By Jonathon Van Maren

That Europe’s leftist-liberals come out in force for both Islamists and the LGBT agenda speaks volumes about their self-destructive incoherence.

Fresh from her attempt to invade Gaza by boat and getting deported by the Israeli Defence Forces for her efforts last month, Swedish political activist Greta Thunberg showed up in Budapest on June 26 to back the global LGBT intifada.

“Today I joined thousands of people on the streets of Budapest, Hungary, where Orbán, in a desperate attempt, banned the Pride march,” she announced on Instagram. “It’s another fascist attack on human rights. Pride is both a protest but also a celebration of love and who we are. Fascists will never be able to ban love.” If she’d made it to Gaza, she would have found out otherwise.

In March, Hungarian lawmakers voted to amend the Child Protection Act to ban Pride Parades by a margin of 136 to 27. In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated, protecting children from LGBT ideology and obscene displays takes precedence over the right of activists to promote such things publicly. Orbán’s LGBT policies are so popular in Hungary that opposing them is considered very bad politics.

It is worth noting what Hungarian lawmakers were protecting children from. In Toronto this month, naked men strolled past families hoisting rainbow signs with the slogan “normalize nudity”; men in puppy fetish gear groped each other and kissed. Similar scenes unfolded in other major Western cities, most attended by high-profile politicians. To a certain sort of leader, it is essential that people are exposed to such things in public.

Many of those politicians flocked to Budapest on June 26 for Budapest Pride, a defiant event fueled by international activists who once again have their sights set on Hungary. Among those who attended were Hadja Lahbib, European Commissioner for Equality; Nicolae Ștefănuță, Vice-President of the European Parliament; and Luxembourg MEP Marc Angel, co-president of the European Parliament’s Intergroup of LGBTI rights.

And of course, 22-year-old Greta Thunberg made her mandatory appearance.

Thunberg is a globe-trotting professional activist who resembles a female version of Hergé’s fictional reporter Tintin. She became famous at age 16 after delivering an outraged speech at the UN Climate Action Summit in September 2019, where she berated beaming masochistic Eurocrats for their inaction. “How dare you!” she famously huffed at them. They loved it and promptly invited her to repeat her party trick at other major events, from Davos to the European Parliament.

Thunberg took a year off high school to instruct world leaders on how to deal with the climate crisis before realizing that activism was good business. She now attends protests as a brand as much as an individual. In addition to her environmental activism, Thunberg attempted to reach Gaza by yacht with several other activists earlier this month; the Palestinian cause has been a recent addition to her roster.

At a rally in Germany last year, she shouted: “F*** Israel!” In an attempt to conflate her issues, she added: “We cannot wait, not on the subject of Palestine and not on climate change.” Or, as it turns out, on the LGBT agenda. 

There is a neat symmetry to Thunberg’s attempted trip to Gaza and her arrival in Budapest to back the LGBT movement. For years, Orbán’s government has been attacked for two primary reasons: Their refusal to admit thousands of Muslim migrants, and their staunch opposition to the LGBT agenda. That their fiercest political opponents should be furious about not one but both of those policies says much about the suicidal incoherence of Europe’s progressives.

Greta Thunberg’s primary political usefulness is as a nearperfect avatar of the inherent contradictions of the post-modern progressive. She derived her fame from serving as a purveyor of penance for the elites, chastising them at high-profile events at their invitation. She attends rallies where the crowds chant for the destruction of Israel, and demonstrations where the mob demands the surrender of Christian Europe. Thunberg is an internationalist, and she marches under many banners—whether they feature a crescent or a rainbow.

Pictured: Greta Thunberg in 2024, wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh